After uncovering the tomato row from the freeze that wasn't and the first PL match I took R to preschool. J was unhappy as usual since his lttile brother gets to play with other kids and he doesn't so when we got home from dropping R off I got out the bow and a few arrows. I got the bow at a yard sale as part of buying another full size Bear recurve with the target. The have sat in the house put up since this time last year as he was not strong enough or responsible enough to use it.
Started with the target just set against the tree but after a wayward arrow had to be found I moved it around the tree so the shots would more likely hit the ground then keep going. It took him about 15 tries before he managed to figure out his form.
I showed him how to hold the bow and arrow for drawing it by aiming the arrow at the ground and pushing the bow down as he pulls on the string to draw it then raise it to the target.
Pretty damn good for just starting to learn. He is still figuring out the finger position on the drawing hand so the release is smoother, but for his first day of it he did really well.
Instead of having the arrows stuck in the ground I grabbed a piece of pvc that had a sort of sharper end to it and pounded it into the ground by his shooting spot. This way he can just set them in the pvc and it makes it much easier and less likely to hurt the tips by lamming them into the rocky ground.
Our friend stopped by with her kids right after we got home from picking R up from school. The kids played around the yard while we talked and she absconded with some of my produce, (I give it to her). Once they took of for town and the boys got fed I headed out the the garden to pull weeds. The pea row had become well over grown in weeds and as I pulled them I found these peas already trying to grow. I am not terribly surprised since I never pulled the old pea plants, but I don't need them trying to volunteer this time of year. They will just get destroyed when I pull the plastic and irrigation in a few weeks or month.
I heard it from a long ways out, I have aircraft sensitivity to where I can feel the sound of the engines before I hear it, so I was able to get shots across the sky. I love seeing the Boeing 777X fly over and it went directly over the house.
I got 2 of the big tubs over full of weeds from the 2 rows which got spread in the sheep pen where the chickens all massed upon it in between the sheep munching away.
Had a tree that I had been meaning to cut down next to the new studio. It was 4 feet from it and I do not want it growing big that close so it had to come down. There are 6 or 8 others around it but they are farther from the studio so not as big of a concern. I hacked it into chunks and will haul it to the yard for the wood pile today.
I have figured out my writing space. Our house allows for pretty much zero other possible places for my computer so I can't close my door and wall myself off from the world. I have monitor for my laptop mounted to the wall and that screen holds Scrivener. The bluetooth keyboard is my creative writing keyboard that I only use for typing into Scrivener. The laptop keyboard is what I do everything on the laptop monitor with, all my posts and tweets and surfing and all the other non-productive time.
People need different things to get into their zone, candles, scents, music, closing the door to their office, or whatever. I have set mine as the use of the keyboard. And it is working too. I slip up every now and then and use it for replies or something but I am really trying to make it my trigger for writing. By the time I went to bed I had 1347 words written on my story and am nearing 12K.
4 more sunflower heads ready. Well ready is a bit subjective I think. They were needing to be taken as they had all broken or bent the stems. The rains weren't kind to them with the heavy heads. I stripped the outer leaves and the backs of the heads to let them dry better. It is to be sunny and warm all week so they should actually dry nice.
R has his second day of preschool for the week today, I didn't get beans picked yesterday so I will be doing that today, more archery lessons while R is in school (he would too easily get in the way), cleaning the brooder and whatever else takes priority.
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Cool he's learning archery.
Nice looking sunflower!